The Battle of Hue City is the site of one of the Vietnam War’s fiercest battles. Three understrength U.S. Marine battalions attacked and soundly defeated entrenched enemy troops, liberating Hue for South Vietnam. This episode tells the stories of the young men of Alpha, Fox, Golf and Hotel Companies who fought and recaptured Hue City.

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In December of 1944, the seemingly defeated Germans secretly mustered 600,000 battle-hardened troops into an all-out offensive to capture Antwerp, the heart of the Allied supply chain. But thanks to those “Damned Engineers,” the Germans never get to Antwerp.

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Everything went wrong in America’s first test of whether the Japanese-held islands of the Pacific could be captured by across-the-beach infantry assaults. But, the march back from Pearl Harbor had to begin and the testing ground would be heavily fortified Tarawa – which a Japanese commander proclaimed to his emperor that, “Tarawa could not be taken by a million men in a million years.”

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Taking an otherwise nondescript hill on the embattled island of Okinawa proved to be one of the most incredible battles of WWII. The young weary marines of Charlie Company strained against the searing Pacific sun to see the top of Sugar Loaf Hill.

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A hastily assembled, undermanned Marine rifle company known as 'Bloody George' battles the odds during the Korean War.

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When Colonel MacFarland arrived in Iraq's deadliest city, the odds could not have been worse. Al-Qaeda had arrogantly declared Ramadi, capital of a new caliphate. The boys of MacFarland’s Ready First Combat Team would fight to give America a clear victory.

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